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November 2010
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BPA-Lined Spinach Cans Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
Popeye the Sailor: A lifetime of BPA-lined spinach cans.
Stunning Animated Time-Lapse Map of Red-Blue America 1920-2008
As opposed to a “simple” choropleth map which depicts data constrained by political units like counties or states, an isarithmic map can capture the existence of regional patterns otherwise obscured by the superimposition of geographically arbitrary political boundaries.
Massachusetts OKs Cape Wind Deal with National Grid
Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm ever approved in the U.S., today passed another major milestone when the state of Massachusetts approved a 15-year PPA with the utility, National Grid.
California Task Force Recommends Strategy for Climate Change Adaptation
As the incoming Republican-led U.S. Congress makes plans to challenge the science behind climate change, the State of California is moving ahead with plans for climate change adaptation.
World Bank Loans to Energy Projects, Both Clean and Dirty, Soar
The World Bank’s lending for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects increased by 300 percent between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2010, to a record $3.4 billion. But over that same period, lending to fossil fuel projects also jumped 430 percent.
